US1098875A

US1098875A - Gas-producer.

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Publication number: US1098875A
Application number: US79251213A
Authority: US
Inventors: Alvin J Bassett
Original assignee: Sharp Bassett Gas Producer Co
Current assignee: Sharp Bassett Gas Producer Co
Priority date: 1913-09-29
Filing date: 1913-09-29
Publication date: 1914-06-02
Anticipated expiration: 1931-06-02

Description

A. J. B-ASSBTT.

GAS PRODUCER.

Patented June 2, 1914.

APPLICATION FILED SBPT.29,1913.

u Si i,... ZET 8/ oo compartment of the air chamber and is provided with a eoi'itrolling valve 9 having an actuating lever 9, it being understood that the Huid supply pipe 3 extends to a scrubber mechanism, not shown. Directly under the mouth of the fluid-pipe 9 a V- shaped drip-pan 10 is provided, in the form of a ring, the saine being secured, as shown,

which point they are supported by a ring.

11', the same being, in turn, supported by brackets 12 that are secured to the jacket 1. The ring 11 also carries an inwardly dared metallic fire-pot hopper 13, which is preferably formed in detachable sections and under this tire-pot is arranged a suitable rocking grate 14, the same being disposed in the ash-pit section of the jacket, which ashpit section extends from the ring 11 to the bottom of .said jacket.

The mouth of a conductor pipe 15 is arranged to communicate With the air storage compartment c of the chamber, which pipe is in the form of an elbow having a horizontal section 15 that extends into the ashpit, terminating With an upwardly discharging mouth in axial alinement with the fuelj pot and directly under the grate. Extending Within the vertical leg 15 of the conductor pipe is a humidistat 16 provided with a lever mechanism 16', which mechanism is con-l nected to the actuating lever 9 of the steam supply valve 9 by; a rod 17, whereby the valve 9 is controlled through the action of said humidistat.

ln the 'operation it is obvious that air forced through the nipple 8, Will pass through the apertures of the first ring 8 and be slightly retarded prior to being dischargedv below the second ring S". Incidental to the air being momentarily retarded Within the mixing compartment, watenis admitted thereto, whereby the air will absorb the vproper degree of humidity to effect perfect combustion. The humidied air is thereafter caused to travel through the conductor pipe and be discharged under the fuel pot. Should' the humidity increase over a predetermined degree, the humidist-at Will act upon its lever mechanism 16 and thus cut ed or restrict the supply of Water by means' of its Valve connection to the Water pipe or` vice versa. It is obvious that, owing to the fact that the gas-receiving throat projects downwardly and centrally of the fuel pot,it will cause a large percentage of the gas to be pocketed at the head end of the pot, which gas must return and be discharged in 'an even flow into the mouth o f the throat, whereby it is collected and then delivered tothe point of storage or consumption and, furthermore, that, owing to the fact that the water jacketed head of the producer being in communication with a chamber formed between the double walls of the rcceiving throat, the same is held at a sulficiently low temperature to prevent burning out-mud, furthermore, this increased area of the water jacket also serves to correspondingl y increase the capacity of said jacket as a water heater for supplying the humidifier.

Particularl attention'is called tothe fact that the chamber about the casing is divided by the perforated rings S', 8, t` :'st into an upper compartment for receiving the supply of air the volume of which is retarded or choked in its flow to the mixing compartment .7; thercbeloiv as it iiows through the ring apertures. Hence the slightly con'- tined air in the upper compartment Will be distributed equally about the casing and be discharged in a uniform sheet to the mixing` compartment therebelovv AWhere it receives the humidifying Huid. The humidiied air in the mixing` compartment is then slightly retarded to permit perfect humidication and thereafter the evenly humidified air is then discharged through the apertures in the lower ring 8 into the storage compartment c, from which storage compartment it is drawn olf and delivered under the grate. This method .of interrupting the air and successively causing it to travel from one compartment to the other materially increases the efficiency of the apparatus and ,insures a uniform mixture of properly humidiied air being supplied to the grate for producing combustion, thus eliminating all tendency' of air being discharged only partially treated.

1 claim:

1. ln a gas producer having a jacket, a head closure therefor, and an interior shell in connection with the jacket to form a ehamber'closed at lits ends; the combination ot perforated upper and haver rings extending around the air chamber and spaced from its respective closed ends to form an upper j air-receivingl compartment, a mixing compartment and a lower storage compartment, means for admitting air to the upper airreceiving' compartment, means for adfiitting thud to the air mixing compartment where` by said air is humidiiied, and a pipe con-i nection in communication with the lower airf storage compartment` the said pipe beingl terminated with a discharge mouth under the fuel pot. l 2. In a gas producer having a jacket, a" head closure therefor, Aand an interior shell. in connection Withfthe jacket to form a